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Venom Diversity and Evolution in the Most Divergent Cone Snail Genus Venom Diversity and Evolution in the Most Divergent Cone Snail Genus Profundiconus Giulia Fassio, Maria Vittoria Modica, Lou Mary, Paul Zaharias, Alexander Fedosov, Juliette Gorson, Yuri Kantor, Mand Holford, Nicolas Puillandre To cite this version: Giulia Fassio, Maria Vittoria Modica, Lou Mary, Paul Zaharias, Alexander Fedosov, et al.. Venom Diversity and Evolution in the Most Divergent Cone Snail Genus Profundiconus. Toxins, MDPI, 2019, 11 (11), pp.623. 10.3390/toxins11110623. hal-02430744 HAL Id: hal-02430744 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02430744 Submitted on 7 Jan 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. toxins Article Venom Diversity and Evolution in the Most Divergent Cone Snail Genus Profundiconus Giulia Fassio 1,*, Maria Vittoria Modica 2,3, Lou Mary 4, Paul Zaharias 4, Alexander E. Fedosov 5, Juliette Gorson 6,7,8, Yuri I. Kantor 5 , Mandё Holford 6,7,8,* and Nicolas Puillandre 4 1 Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy 2 Department of Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Naples, Italy; [email protected] 3 University of Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France 4 Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antillles, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 26, 75005 Paris, France; [email protected] (L.M.); [email protected] (P.Z.); [email protected] (N.P.) 5 A.N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninski prospect 33, 119071 Moscow, Russian; [email protected] (A.E.F.); [email protected] (Y.I.K.) 6 Department of Chemistry, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY 10065, USA; [email protected] 7 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, The American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA 8 Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemistry programs of The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 10016, USA * Correspondence: [email protected] (G.F.); [email protected] (M.H.) Received: 7 October 2019; Accepted: 24 October 2019; Published: 28 October 2019 Abstract: Profundiconus is the most divergent cone snail genus and its unique phylogenetic position, sister to the rest of the family Conidae, makes it a key taxon for examining venom evolution and diversity. Venom gland and foot transcriptomes of Profundiconus cf. vaubani and Profundiconus neocaledonicus were de novo assembled, annotated, and analyzed for differential expression. One hundred and thirty-seven venom components were identified from P. cf. vaubani and 82 from P. neocaledonicus, with only four shared by both species. The majority of the transcript diversity was composed of putative peptides, including conotoxins, profunditoxins, turripeptides, insulin, and prohormone-4. However, there were also a significant percentage of other putative venom components such as chymotrypsin and L-rhamnose-binding lectin. The large majority of conotoxins appeared to be from new gene superfamilies, three of which are highly different from previously reported venom peptide toxins. Their low conotoxin diversity and the type of insulin found suggested that these species, for which no ecological information are available, have a worm or molluscan diet associated with a narrow dietary breadth. Our results indicate that Profundiconus venom is highly distinct from that of other cone snails, and therefore important for examining venom evolution in the Conidae family. Keywords: Conidae; conotoxins; turripeptides; transcriptome; venom gland Key Contribution: Reported here is the first characterization of the venom arsenal from Profundiconus, the most divergent cone snail genus. We identified several new Conus venom gene superfamilies, and insulin transcripts that suggest a worm or molluscan diet for the Profundiconus species examined. 1. Introduction As stated by the “father” of toxicology, “Omnia venenum sunt: nec sine veneno quicquam existit. Dosis sola facit, ut venenum non fit.”: Everything can be a venom, only the dose makes the difference Toxins 2019, 11, 623; doi:10.3390/toxins11110623 www.mdpi.com/journal/toxins Toxins 2019, 11, 623 2 of 22 between a poisoning and a non-poisoning substance [1]. This intuition deftly summarized what happened independently several times across the animal kingdom, where gene families, encoding for proteins normally involved in key regulatory processes, were recruited for venom production [2]. Many of such gene families underwent positive selection and rapid expansion during the evolutionary history of venomous animal, showing the importance of defensive and predatory venoms in the prey-predator arms race [3]. Typically, venom is a complex mixture of different components generally referred to as ‘toxins’, which directly interfere with the physiology of the prey acting often as neurotoxins or enzymes impairing haemostasis [2,3]. However, they can be also listed as venom components those enzymes involved in post-translational modifications, folding processes, and in enhancing venom activity by easing toxins spreading [2,3]. Current studies of venomous animals allow for better understanding of convergent recruitment of venom component in distantly related taxa, prey–predator coevolution, and represent a starting point for the identification of new bioactive compounds of pharmaceutical interest. Among taxa that have developed a venomous function, the globally distributed gastropod superfamily Conoidea is a highly diversified group of carnivorous species including the family Conidae J. Fleming, 1822 [4,5]. Based on the latest published molecular phylogeny of the Conidae [6] six genera, comprising ~850 species, can be recognized: Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956, Californiconus J. K. Tucker & Tenorio, 2009, Lilliconus G. Raybaudi Massilia, 1994, Pygmaeconus Puillandre & Tenorio, 2017, Conasprella Thiele, 1929, and Conus Linnaeus, 1758. The Conidae venom arsenal, combined with sophisticated envenomation strategies, has allowed these slow-moving snail species to prey on worms, other molluscs, and fish [7]. Of the six Conidae genera, the complex venom cocktails of the genus Conus Linnaeus, 1758 (Conidae) have been intensively studied and contain mainly conotoxins that target ion channels, neurotransmitter transporters, and receptors of the nervous system of the prey [7]. A conotoxin precursor is typically composed of a conserved signal region, a pro-region that may be present or lacking, a highly variable mature peptide in most cases rich in cysteine residues, and a short terminal region [8]. The conotoxins are classified into gene superfamilies based on the percentage sequence identity (PID) of the signal region, and into cysteine patterns based on the number and distribution of cysteine residues in the mature region [8,9]. Data produced to date show that the conotoxin mixture produced by the venom gland varies not only at the inter- and intra-specific level [10,11], but also within a single individual over time [12], and among different regions of the venom gland [13]. In particular, the distal and the proximal segments of the venom gland, with respect to the venom bulb, produce different kinds of venom, in response to elicitation of a defensive or a predatory behaviour, respectively [13]. Despite the prevalence of conotoxins, other bioactive compounds have been found in conid venom, including insulins, c-type lectins, disulfide isomerase, and astacins [14–20]. Recent phylogenetic reconstructions, based on exomes and mitogenomes, confidently identified Profundiconus as the sister-lineage to all the other Conidae, dating its divergence from the other genera around 56–62 Mya [21,22]. As suggested by its name, the 28 extant species ascribed to this genus live in, but are not all restricted to, very deep waters, mainly in the Indo-Pacific [23]. The phylogenetic position of Profundiconus, as sister to all other cone-snails, makes it a key taxon for understanding conid venom evolution enabling to infer the venom composition of the ancestor of all present-day cone-snails. Due to the lack of direct observations, Profundiconus ecology and hunting strategy could only be inferred from their radular morphology, which indicates a likely vermivory [24]. Additionally, the find of a small octopus beak in the stomach of a Profundiconus smirnoides Tenorio, 2015 specimen suggested the ability, of at least this species, to prey on cephalopods [24,25]. This study describes, for the first time, the venom composition of Profundiconus. The venom gland (VG) and foot (F) transcriptomes of Profundiconus cf. vaubani (Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995) and Profundiconus neocaledonicus Tenorio & Castelin, 2016 were analyzed and novel gene superfamilies, as well as other venom components involved in toxicity, toxin processing, or in enhancing venom activity, are reported here. The novelty of gene superfamilies found, the presence of putative Toxins 2019, 11, 623 3 of 22 turripeptides, and the high abundance of other venom proteins
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